- Created by
- Gbadebo, Adebunmi, American, born 1992
- Date
- 2019
- Medium
- mixed media: human hair, cotton, rice paper, denim, indigo, dye
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall install): 93 × 78 × 3 in. (236.2 × 198.1 × 7.6 cm)
- H x W x D (each frame): 30 × 25 × 2 1/2 in. (76.2 × 63.5 × 6.4 cm)
- Description
- This framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and varying degrees of indigo dye mixed with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Plantation. The edges of the portrait are rough. In the top left quadrant is an intense patch of indigo dye. In this same area are two pieces of paper with black text.
- The first piece of paper refers to a slavery rating system and is divided into two columns and the text "prime hand," "half hand," "Supersnnuated," "Overseer's nurse," and "prime hand" repeated again several times. Diagonally below and to the right is the second piece of paper with names: [[illegible] / Rachel / Dolly / Phillis / Joseph / Selina / Mary / [illegible] / Be- / Ga- ].
- Place depicted
- Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- I Sang The Blues Blackest: 18 Holes
- Portfolio/Series
- True Blue
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- multimedia works
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center and generously supported by American Express
- Object number
- 2021.42.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Adebunmi Gbadebo
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




